News Flash: Dems Don\'t Get It
Let's review a whole bunch of the verifiable facts, and then we might just possibly understand America is NOT the ultra-liberal, conservative-hating people who are "oppressed" by rampant cheating in elections:
1980-1988 - Ronald Wilson Reagan, an ultra-popular conservative president, who set the stage for the dissolution of the USSR.
1988-1992 - George Herbert Walker Bush, a moderately popular conservative president, who happened to be unlucky enough to hold office during a normal economic down-cycle, which was made worse by an all-too-conservative Alan Greenspan who kept interest rates too high for too long.
1992-2000 - William Jefferson Clinton, a decidedly centrist Democrat who successfully cast himself as "not your run-of-the-mill, Dukakis liberal". While he did TRY to get through some "classic" liberal programs (Hillary's failed socialized health care), he eventually learned the lesson that he was not elected to try that crap, as he lost the Dem's majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in over 20 years! Clinton treaded lightly in his last term, and acted as the centrist Dem that he claimed to be.
2000-2004 - George W. Bush, another conservative Republican who really wanted to cast himself as the next Ronald Reagan. While he ultimately failed in this regard due to his lack of Reagan-esque charisma, his politics were clearly conservative as he passed tax reform to address the economy (which was easily predictable when Y2K was a non-event and all the software programmers hired in the run-up to Y2K were no longer needed, thus precipitating the "dot com bust"). As much as Al Gore tried, the FACTS show that Bush WON the elecoral vote, fair and square, as attested to by MORE THAN ONE liberal-leaning newspaper who recounted the Florida votes.
And now 2004:
1) Bush again wins the White House...this time CLEARLY winning the popular vote AND the electoral vote...this when SO many people were crying for his ouster (turns out it was only the loud-mouthed, liberals, who were really in the minority, and wanted to exact some revenge against the Republicans because they keep winning and the Dems keep losing).
2) Republicans GAIN seats in the House of Representatives, strengthening their majority in that chamber of Congress.
3) Republicans GAIN seats in the Senate, unseating the Democratic Minority Leader, Tom Daschle, who is one of THE most liberal of the Dems, next to the likes of Kennedy and Kerry.
4) Republicans GAIN seats in the governor's mansions around the 50 states, thus increasing the lop-sided "balance of power" at the state level.
Now....would someone like to refute this mountain of evidence that the USA has been walking down an increasingly conservative path since 1980? It is pretty clear at this point in Time (keeping this on topic!) that the MAJORITY of the population in the USA prefers conservative values, which call for personal AND governmental responsibility WITHOUT Draconian taxes and direct interference in our lives, and WITH a strong presence on the world stage such that we don't ever surrender our freedoms to countries who complain but take no action to right the wrongs in the world.
Plain and simple: The person responsible for the Titor hoax recognized the easy-to-see trend in Americana towards conservative values. Being either an outspoken or "closet" liberal, this person wanted to cook-up something big that would seek to de-rail this conservative trend. So he/she/they did their homework and came up with a story that many people (but not all people) would be taken-in by.
You can tell me I am wrong, but you will have to start by refuting the evidence that I have presented above. The American voters have been speaking clearly (and their will has been carried out) for many years now. Much to the dismay of the Democrats who can't seem to figure out how to put together campaigns that will appeal to the MAJORITY of the American people!
It's so funny, it is sad. The Democratic Party now has yet ANOTHER data point that they need to seriously re-invent themselves, or they will be even less of a factor in 2008.
RMT